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American Agriculturist, September 1,1923 
NEW LAMP BURNS 
94% AIR 
Beats Electric or Gas 
Some Step-Saving Suggestions 
Josephine E. Toal Praises the Pencil--Hints For Mothers 
A new oil lamp that gives an amaz¬ 
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no pumping up, is simple, clean, safe. 
Burns 94% air and 6% common kero¬ 
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The inventor, R. M. Johnson, 642 N. 
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I HAVE turned over a new leaf in the 
timesaving primer. It is very sim¬ 
ple. I have a pencil within easy reach 
wherever I am. From attic to base¬ 
ment I can always pounce upon one at 
a second’s notice. 
Of course, everyone expects to find 
pencils in the writing desk and on the 
telephone table. But it is a different 
thing when one has to run up or down 
a flight of stairs and back again for 
that little necessity which. will never 
come when you whistle. Spill a few 
pencil stubs about the house in handy 
places and see how it works. You will 
want one on the kitchen mantle (if you 
have one), to write the grocery orders, 
figure household expenses, etc. An¬ 
other in the kitchen cabinet or pantry 
will come in handy for making memo¬ 
randa, writing recipes and labels. 
All those bags, boxes and papers in 
the attic should be labeled. At house¬ 
cleaning time, just take a pencil and 
pad along up there with your broom 
and dustpan. You’ll have plenty of 
of chances to use them. Leave them 
in the attic in a convenient place. 
Did you get your bulbs mixed up 
last year because when you put them 
in the basement you made only a men¬ 
tal memoranda that went back on you? 
Maybe it wasn’t bulbs; perhaps it was 
seed potatoes, or you forgot how many 
dozens of eggs you laid down and when. 
The summer kitchen? the woodshed? 
Sure! All the garden seeds garnered, 
the corn and herbs traced up, the left¬ 
over paints and varnishes—a multitude 
of things to be tagged. 
Don’t omit pencil and paper in the 
guest room. Your friend may have 
forgotten her fountain pen. 
The pencil in my workbasket often 
jots down measurements. One in my 
machine drawer, along with a piece of 
crayon, is no less a timesaver. 
You will want a pencil on the porch 
reading table for notes, and of course, 
plenty of nice long sharp ones in the 
library. 
Snatch down a pencil from the rafter 
in the henhouse to mark eggs and make 
poultry tallies. 
I always carry a stub or two in my 
shopping bag, and one in my pocket 
when I go to church (have you 
ever noticed the pencil shortage in 
church?), and tuck one in with a writ¬ 
ing pad when I pack my suitcase for 
a trip. 
Other Small Timesavers 
Pins, buttons, needles, and thread— 
a supply on each floor in the house will 
save much time and vexation. The 
safety pin, convenient makeshift for 
the missing button or string, is ever a 
friend in need and should have an hon¬ 
ored place in every bedroom and bath¬ 
room, as well as in handy baskets and 
drawers here and there about the 
house. 
The ready string is as much a time- 
saver as the ready pencil. A ball of 
twine in the kitchen, the attic, and the 
basement saves many steps. A few 
sheets of heavy wrapping paper and a 
quantity of stout cord laid up in a 
convenient place, help out wonderfully 
in the hurried moment when a package 
is to be wrapped on short notice. 
Save the heavy cord with which your 
flour sacks come closed, the bits of 
tow and rope tied about the burlap 
in which your new rugs and furniture 
were delivered. You will find them 
timely aids next summer for trying up 
shrubs and plants in the garden. 
DONT’S FOR YOUNG MOTHERS 
1. Don’t let the baby eat between 
meals—not even bread or crack¬ 
ers. Have the mealtimes regular. 
2. Don’t forget to give water between 
meals. 
3. Don’t give over-ripe or under¬ 
ripe fruit. 
4. Don’t give the baby “tastes” of the 
adult’s food. It doesn’t pay! 
READY SEPTEMBER 1 
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This is the cover of our fall and 
winter Fashion Magazine. Inside you 
will find page after page of smart new 
designs, for children, young people and 
older women, and suggestions for 
Christmas gifts to be made at home as 
well. 
There are also illustrated lessons in 
stitches you should know and in diffi¬ 
cult parts of home dressmaking. All 
in all, it is a book you cannot afford 
and good service 
This country has enjoyed railroad transporta¬ 
tion on practically a cheaper basis than any 
Other civilized country .—Report of the Con¬ 
gressional Joint Commission on Agriculture. 
Shippers of farm products on the New York Central Lines 
know from experience that the quality of railroad service is 
of greater importance than the price. 
Inadequate, inefficient freight service is dear at any price. 
Rates that leave no margin of earnings on railroad invest¬ 
ment dry up the sources of new capital, without which the 
carriers cannot provide the new equipment and facilities their 
shippers must have. 
This necessary margin of receipts above expenditures, so 
vital to the life of the railroads, is a small fraction of rail¬ 
road rates. In 1922 the railroads earned the largest net in¬ 
come in five years, a return of 4.14% on their property 
investment. But a reduction of 16% in the rates charged 
in 1922 would have taken all this net. 
The Congressional Joint Commission of Agricultural Inquiry 
estimated that the average proportion of freight rates to the 
value of goods carried was 6%. If this were reduced to 5%, 
a reduction so small that the consuming public would detect 
no difference in living costs, most of our railroads would starve. 
Living rates for the railroads — insuring healthy growth of 
railroad facilities—are vital to agricultural prosperity. 
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THE HANDIEST BABY-TENDER 
The first requisite for a home-made 
“baby tender” is an old baby buggy, 
the sole qualifications of which are, that 
the wheels and springs are intact. Then 
you add a clothes basket and a can of 
pretty paint. 
Remove the old body from the frame 
and fasten above the springs a light, 
solid platform. Paint it all 'neatly and 
if desired, paint the basket to match. 
Fix the basket so that it ties or hooks 
securely to the platform, yet may 
quickly and easily be removed. And 
keep all within proportions that will 
readily pass through a doorway. If 
the original handle is shortened and 
fastened to the platform, it will suffice 
to push the tender about the house. 
Baby in this bassinette can easily be 
pushed from room to room without in 
the least disturbing him. When bath¬ 
time comes, push the tender to the de¬ 
sired spot, remove the basket, spread 
a warm blanket over the platform and 
it is the handiest place imaginable to 
bathe and dress the little one. 
Best of all, when baby outgrows it— 
as babies have a disconcerting way of 
doing—the basket is always a con¬ 
venience. And even the discarded plat¬ 
form on wheels will be found convenient 
in the laundry or to use on the porch.— 
Alice Margaret Ashton. 
The Brown Mouse 
(Continued from page 147) 
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girls rather frightened at being en¬ 
gaged in something like a debate with 
the salesman. 
(Continued next week) 
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It polishes and smooths them better 
than ordinary ironing wax. 
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